My life is spoiled

Friend,

All the advice given to you here is spot on. I can not improve on what has been said so far.

As a parting thought, I do suggest you find a Bible somewhere and take a look at the following passage:
Luke 15:11-32


Whether you are a Christian or not; the story of the Prodigal Son relates quite well to your situation and likely typifies the response your family will eventually have toward you. If you don't have a Bible, a simple Google search should bring up the verses for you.

Good Luck!

damn....i donno what to say....and i tend to bash everyone sry i just cant if this story is true, it was heart breaking to read.

it really sounds like a gamblers addiction story.....

all is not lost, think positive, find a job.

i KNOW how expensive it is for non-canadian students....i recommend taking some college, get some easy degree or certification to find a job ASAP.....its cheaper & faster i think.

BUT if ur almost finished ur degree in enginneering continue it, I think ur eligible for emergency student loans, talk to your financial advisor,

my final advice is dont trade until you have stream if income.

im not christian but yea read koran or bible, has some really good stuff

Pujolshomerun, if this is a joke, you should be hurt, if not, you have my attention! Go to the closest church and ask to talk to the pastor, and explain your situation. There are people in this world that actually care about you! Just sharing your heartache with a real person will help. Second, find a way to get home and confess to your family. Spend time with them now! You can't take back the past, but you can move forward. You know they love you, and will recieve you. Of course it will hurt them, but you are more important than that. Sharing with them will release this huge burden you have on your heart. I don't believe can live with this burden without paying a price you really can't aford. Sometimes we can't do it on our own, and this sounds like a time when you need to be lifted up by those closest around you. I commend you for your dedication and blind risk, but you need to wake up and face your situation. You can do it, and you need to for your sake. If you want to talk, pm me.

Are you a hard worker/good with physical jobs? I would look into the Albertan oil industry. From reports I've read, they are in such demand for labor there that they have built dorms/apartments for transient workers to live, and the pay is great. Maybe some others from Canada can chime in.

I know what your going through Pujolshomerun.

My story is similiar to your, I had a great career and plenty of oportunity to advance in my career, but I gave it up to trade for a living. I started well during the nasdaq bull years, but then when it crash so did all my money, I thought I was on my way to riches and ended up with nothing and no career.

Had to dig myself out and got a low level job and then get my career on track again. I was able to do that and get back on my feet, you can too!

I started trading again recently and finding success has not been easy but I am making good progress. My attitude towards the market has change, I am a wiser more season and patient person now.

So I think you can be good at trading one day too, but right now you have to stop trading and get your life together again.

Wish you all the best for 2008!


BodhiMind

Im sorry to hear that, i feel your pain.
Now, you cant change what happend, so accept it!!
No point now in looking what you did. What will matter in the future, its what you will do now with this.

If this would have never happen, you would not be the man you are about to become!!!

If your family loves you so deeply to do all they did for you, they also love you to forgive you and accept it. Your mom needs you with her now, dont let this money issue stops you from been there or you may regreat it in the future.

My best wishes to you!!

Matias

It has been 6 days since pujolshomerun has posted this and this was his last post on this forum. I wish he would return and update us as to his decision on what he plans on doing.

If he read the comments here and takes the advice given, 2008 will be a great turn around for him.

The last time he was here and read this thread was 12/27. He did not post at that time, though. My thoughts and hopes are with him.

lol, i would like to help people with my forex margin, but is less than you actually have in bank, well i just started with $2, now its $105. so it wont help a lot what i could give you.

and yeah, i can relate somehow to your history.
i blew it like 6 accounts before any winning, the difference i think is i made deep reflections about the things i was making wrong, and commited to improve those areas.

is not good to blame the market or blame yourself. is many times to chance, but there are tricks to defeat chance. if forex goes against you, why not try to defeat forex with probability.

personally i think you are not spoiled, what you have to do is make review of many things you have done and why you have done it. write them if its possible. work through them.

personally i had a good paying job till mid of last year, while there i was demoing a forex account. in july i decided to quit.

since that i made a commitment to get into this, forex has not given me any more to eat yet, so i decided to use my programming skills to creat web pages and sell them in the local market.

now i work for some companies, and i am like 20Hrs a day into forex.
forex requires lot of dedication, personally i thing you cant have the mind in 3 things and be succesfull in all.

the thing you have to do is review which are your skills and exploit them, if your dream is to get into forex. keep in.... but try to exploit something compatible with it.
you still can have success but before make a review what you have made wrong.

another tip: please erase your signature, you are labeling yourself as a looser, is not funny, what do you want your subconscious mind to reflect then???.

my two cents.

FOCUS ON SHORT TERM GOALS.

1. You learned an expensive lesson. Now it is time to move forward, NOT BACKWARD.

1. Perhaps consider moving closer to home so that you can be with your mother.

1. Perhaps consider transferring all college credits to a technical college, and getting a 2 year associates degree ASAP. Barbacks make really good money.... you are young, and should have the vitality to do school and work. You can transfer the Associates to a 4 year college later, and then finish Bachelors.

1. Nobody can fix this mess but you. MAKE IT HAPPEN.

If you are feel desperate, seek professional help at your local hospital's emergency room.

Wow just found this link today. If this story is true it's really painful. I hope the originator of this thread is home with his family.

Yeap, sounds like true.
And it is hard to judge the guy.
At least hope he is alive.
And if happens that you read this, man, there will be changes!
Look and ask for God support...

This is the first time I've seen this thread, too. And in a way I wish I hadn't. I'm getting a gut-check on the whole morality/immorality of Forex trading. Understanding that this is a zero-sum game, is it possible that I've profited from some of this guy's losses? How many more stories like this are out there? I've got some soul-searching to do...

I also wonder what broker was that!?
I mean there are supposed to be regulations:
like maximum deposit for month is 5K for mini account.

Well, ken, we are all adults.... and must pay the fiddler. Life is survival of the fittest combined with chaos.

I think that soft hearted people need to realize that all business assume profits and losses. Unfortunately, traders are businesses as well, whether we realize it or not, we are playing in the United States capitalist arena.

How sorry would one feel if this guy admitted that he would have blown the money on booze, dope, gambling or hookers instead of Forex? Not very I believe.

We all are young and stupid at one point. Trust me on that one, I wrote several chapters on youth and stupidity.

But to repeat the same mistake? Whatever happened to learning from them? Couldn't he have used his 2nd year's tuition money for his studies?

Another weakness is a lack of discipline. Vital in forex and in many other areas of life. If one works so hard to accomplish a childhood's dream and lets it go after seeing one infomercial, what does that say about the person's discipline?

He didn't have the discipline to follow through. He was doomed before he started.

the biggest mistake in business is to believe in something we don't understand

i don't feel sorry for the guy, he did the same thing over and over, he jump in forex without a trading system and had no clue what he was doing, but yet he did it over and over again. anybody who open a forex account and hit buy or sell thinking they gona get rich, gets what they deserve, didn't he learn the first time it wasn't that easy, no system no demo trading= disater.

Sounds to me like this dude has an addiction issue. He sounds like a gambler and not a trader. The fact he developed alcohol problems too suggests he has an addictive personality. If he hadnt seen that forex advert, he would probably have blown the money somewhere else. The bookies most likely. Shame really.